Saturday, 26 July 2014

Wine ("WINdows Emulator", aka "Wine Is Not an Emulator") and it is the Free and Open source utility that is used to run applications designed for Windows OS on Linux/Unix platform. Wine comes with a software library Winelib that lets the coders to compile Windows applications on Linux/Unix platform. Wine has now reached it's latest stable version- Wine 1.7.23 and this article will guide you to install Wine 1.7.23 stable release on your Ubuntu and Linux Mint systems.

What's New in Wine 1.7.23..?

Better support for files drag & drop.

Improvements to the HTTP cookie management.

Initial support for 64-bit Android builds.

Fixes to crypto certificates management.

Various bug fixes.

Fixes

"Trial" button doesn't show in main menu of Nick's "Diego's Wolf Pup Rescue"

Adobe InDesign CS4 (version 6) crashes on launch

Certain keyboard buttons not working in Operation Flashpoint and Fallout (2 and 3)

Icy Tower 1.4 crashes when moving its window

Stem Cell engine Oil Platform Demo hangs without displaying anything

Dark Age of Camelot patcher crashes from page fault

Strange Cases: The Lighthouse Mysteries crashes

Notepad++ does not receive drag+drop files in KDE, seems to work in GNOME